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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, me@ttaylorr.com, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de,
	newren@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rebase --merge: optionally skip upstreamed commits
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:47:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpnd9fql0.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200318173051.25875-1-jonathantanmy@google.com> (Jonathan Tan's message of "Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:30:51 -0700")

Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:

> When rebasing against an upstream that has had many commits since the
> original branch was created:
>
>  O -- O -- ... -- O -- O (upstream)
>   \
>    -- O (my-dev-branch)
>
> it must read the contents of every novel upstream commit, in addition to
> the tip of the upstream and the merge base, because "git rebase"
> attempts to exclude commits that are duplicates of upstream ones. This
> can be a significant performance hit, especially in a partial clone,
> wherein a read of an object may end up being a fetch.

OK.  I presume that we do this by comparing patch IDs?

Total disabling would of course is OK as a feature, especially for
the first cut, but I wonder if it would be a reasonable idea to use
some heuristic to keep the current "filter the same change" feature
as much as possible but optimize it by filtering the novel upstream
commits without hitting their trees and blobs (I am assuming that
you at least are aware of and have the commit objects on the
upstream side).

The most false-negative-prone approach is just to compare the
<author ident, author timestamp> of a candidate upstream commit with
what you have---if that author does not appear on my-dev-branch, it
is very unlikely that your change has been accepted upstream.  Of
course, two people who independently discover the same solution is
not all that rare, so it does risk false-negative to take too little
clue from the commits to compare, but at least it is not worse than
what you are proposing here ;-)  And if one of your commits on
my-dev-branch _might_ be identical to one of the novel upstream ones,
at that point, we could dig deeper to actually compute the patch ID
by fetching the upstream's tree.

That's all totally outside the scope of this patch.  It is just a
random thought to see if anybody wants to pursue to make the topic
even better, possible after it lands.

> New in V2: changed parameter name, used Taylor's commit message
> suggestions, and used Elijah's documentation suggestions.

Hmph, what was it called earlier?  My gut reaction without much
thinking finds --no-skip-* a bit confusing double-negation and
suspect "--[no-]detect-cherry-pick" (which defaults to true for
backward compatibility) may feel more natural, but I suspect (I do
not recall details of the discussion on v1) it has been already
discussed and people found --no-skip-* is OK (in which case I won't
object)?

I also wonder if --detect-cherry-pick=(yes|no|auto) may give a
better end-user experience, with "auto" meaning "do run patch-ID
based filtering, but if we know it will be expensive (e.g. the
repository is sparsely cloned), please skip it".  That way, there
may appear other reasons that makes patch-ID computation expensive
now or in the fiture, and the users are automatically covered.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-18 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-09 20:55 [PATCH] rebase --merge: optionally skip upstreamed commits Jonathan Tan
2020-03-10  2:10 ` Taylor Blau
2020-03-10 15:51   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-10 12:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-10 16:00   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-10 18:56 ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-10 22:56   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-12 18:04     ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-12 22:40       ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-14  8:04         ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-17  3:03           ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-18 17:30 ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Tan
2020-03-18 18:47   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-03-18 19:28     ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-18 19:55       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-18 20:41         ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-18 23:39           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-19  0:17             ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-18 20:20   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-26 17:50   ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-26 19:17     ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-26 19:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-29 10:12   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] t3402: use POSIX compliant regex(7) Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-30  4:06 ` [PATCH v3] rebase --merge: optionally skip upstreamed commits Jonathan Tan
2020-03-30  5:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-30  5:22   ` Danh Doan
2020-03-30 12:13   ` Derrick Stolee
2020-03-30 16:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-30 16:57     ` Jonathan Tan
2020-03-31 11:55       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-03-31 16:27   ` Elijah Newren
2020-03-31 18:34     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-03-31 18:43       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-10 22:27     ` Jonathan Tan
2020-04-11  0:06       ` Elijah Newren
2020-04-11  1:11         ` Jonathan Tan
2020-04-11  2:46           ` Elijah Newren
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-03-26  7:35 [PATCH 0/3] add travis job for linux with musl libc Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26  7:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] ci: libify logic for usage and checking CI_USER Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26  7:35 ` [PATCH 2/3] ci: refactor docker runner script Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-26 16:06   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-03-28 17:53   ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-03-29  6:36     ` Danh Doan
2020-03-26  7:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] travis: build and test on Linux with musl libc and busybox Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-29  5:49 ` [PATCH 0/3] add travis job for linux with musl libc Junio C Hamano
2020-03-29 10:12 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Travis + Azure jobs " Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-29 10:12   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] ci: libify logic for usage and checking CI_USER Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-03-29 10:12   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] ci: refactor docker runner script Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-01 21:51     ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-03-29 10:12   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] travis: build and test on Linux with musl libc and busybox Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-01 22:18     ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-04-02  1:42       ` Danh Doan
2020-04-07 14:53       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-07 21:35         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-10 13:38           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-03-29 16:23   ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Travis + Azure jobs for linux with musl libc Junio C Hamano
2020-04-02 13:03   ` [PATCH v3 0/6] " Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 1/6] ci: make MAKEFLAGS available inside the Docker container in the Linux32 job Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 2/6] ci/lib-docker: preserve required environment variables Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-03  8:22       ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-04-03 10:09         ` Danh Doan
2020-04-03 19:55           ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 3/6] ci/linux32: parameterise command to switch arch Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 4/6] ci: refactor docker runner script Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 5/6] ci/linux32: libify install-dependencies step Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 13:04     ` [PATCH v3 6/6] travis: build and test on Linux with musl libc and busybox Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-02 17:53     ` [PATCH v3 0/6] Travis + Azure jobs for linux with musl libc Junio C Hamano
2020-04-03  0:23       ` Danh Doan
2020-04-04  1:08   ` [PATCH v4 0/6] Travis " Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 1/6] ci: make MAKEFLAGS available inside the Docker container in the Linux32 job Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 2/6] ci/lib-docker: preserve required environment variables Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 3/6] ci/linux32: parameterise command to switch arch Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 4/6] ci: refactor docker runner script Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 5/6] ci/linux32: libify install-dependencies step Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-04  1:08     ` [PATCH v4 6/6] travis: build and test on Linux with musl libc and busybox Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-04-05 20:39     ` [PATCH v4 0/6] Travis jobs for linux with musl libc Junio C Hamano
2020-04-07 14:55       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-04-07 19:25         ` Junio C Hamano

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